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I fixed Apple's broken Weather Dashboard Widget
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Has anybody had any problems in the past 24 h? The widget won't load anything in Mojave (re-loading didn't help), however it worked in Mavericks the last time I switched to it (half an hour ago). I logged into my HERE account to see what's going on and there was nothing unusual except I was asked to fill the fields supposedly for them to make sure I'm of "the legal age". Also, their system status is all OK.
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It's now back to normal. I may've reached an API requests limit however I didn't get any notifications contrary to what's stated in the documentation.
18 min later
It's now back to normal. I may've reached an API requests limit however I didn't get any notifications contrary to what's stated in the documentation.
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Glad it’s working, probably just a temporary fluke.
As a note, there will be no warning when the api limit is reached as far as I know. If I wrote that, please let me know where so I can correct it.
I would be very surprised if you managed to exceed HERE’s api limit while using a personal api key. (The shared key, I’m more concerned about.)
As a note, there will be no warning when the api limit is reached as far as I know. If I wrote that, please let me know where so I can correct it.
I would be very surprised if you managed to exceed HERE’s api limit while using a personal api key. (The shared key, I’m more concerned about.)
The only thing that overshadows the pleasure of using it is that the problem of TZ is still persistent. It's Sun at my location (EET), but the widget shows Mon (I'm not sure I followed its update status changes in case you managed to find the solution; the one I'm using has the date modified of Sept 2020). It seems it falls back on UTC performing time shift calculations. It's either an omission on part of HERE or something's else in play here.
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Unfortunately that's down to HERE. They're convinced that it's Monday, and so that's the widget says. I can't show anything they don't give me, I'm afraid.
I reached out to their support in September and sent the code (!!!) but got no response so far.
Thanks! Moving forward, I'd actually avoid contacting HERE if possible. I'm pretty sure the shared key has gone over the API limit but they haven't cut it off yet, and I'd like to continue flying under the radar.
I generated my API key as per instructions. The problem is they made an overhaul of their site and now everything I see is just some generic info but not my APIs.
Also, they can track any API usage regardless.
Also, they can track any API usage regardless.
Just wanted to chime in and say thank you for this amazing little treat. I've just installed your weather widget as well as the unit converter which I have particularly been missing a lot since the currency part of it stopped working.
Working fine in Intel and PPC G4.
Working fine in Intel and PPC G4.
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I've just downloaded the Unit Converter widget but after unzipping and double clicking on the .wdgt, it says "Unit Converter is damaged and needs to be moved to Trash Folder ..."
My system is: Mac mini mid-2010 running Mojave 10.14.6
The weather widget I've downloaded from the same site works fine.
My system is: Mac mini mid-2010 running Mojave 10.14.6
The weather widget I've downloaded from the same site works fine.
Hot off the presses! I fixed the Translation widget!
You MUST make an account at https://www.deepl.com/pro-api?cta=header-pro-api/ and add your API key inside of the quotes at the top of translationParser.js! (Right click the .wdgt → Show Package Contents).
Tested on OS X 10.9. Curious to know OS compatibility. Let me know if you run into any issues, I only just finished and it needs some good testing!
Deepl's translation quality is scary good—much better than Google Translate—you should get very good results out of the widget!
You MUST make an account at https://www.deepl.com/pro-api?cta=header-pro-api/ and add your API key inside of the quotes at the top of translationParser.js! (Right click the .wdgt → Show Package Contents).
Tested on OS X 10.9. Curious to know OS compatibility. Let me know if you run into any issues, I only just finished and it needs some good testing!
Deepl's translation quality is scary good—much better than Google Translate—you should get very good results out of the widget!
Should be the upper line; you can leave the second line blank since you’re using Squid. Make sure it’s inside quotes, and make sure to reload the widget after adding the key.
Made exactly as you said. Upper line inside the quotes. Reloaded. Same story.
I'm usually have HTTP proxy disabled in Network preferences since it breaks the Weather widget. I have the latest version of Squid and I still see Squid working in Activity Monitor no matter whether I have HTTP proxy on or off. No idea what's going on. Tried to turn it on and off, tried to reboot, no change.
Please let me know if you need any logs.
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This is off topic for this thread, but if Squid is breaking the Weather widget, it’s not working properly. That would he my best guess as to why the Translation widget isn’t working.
I’m not sure how to remotely debug this at the moment, you’re on the same OS as me and I can’t think of what logs would be useful...
I've put a slightly updated version of the Translation widget on my website. To resolve OS compatibility issues, I included only the modified files for users to copy manually. Now tested on 10.6, 10.7, and 10.9. (I'd be very surprised if it didn't work through 10.14).
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Yeah, and I’m sorry on my end too, but I don’t have any ideas right now.
If others also experience issues please post here!
If others also experience issues please post here!
I don't see where the actual .wdgt is. I have made my account and put the API key inside the quotes in translationParser.js. I can't figure out what to do from there.
It looks like I need to have the original translation.wdgt which I don't have. Do you know where I can download it from?